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Early yesterday evening, a man named Jihad Seifullah walked through the neighborhood of East Falls, in northwest Philadelphia, knocking on doors and talking to people about Hillary Clinton. Seifullah, a tall black man in his mid-thirties, is calm and serious, and his approach is not so much to persuade people to change their views as it is to impress upon them the great weight of this election

Past midnight on July 19th, Zhang Erqiang, a villager living outside Xingtai, about two hundred and fifty miles southwest of Beijing, tossed and turned in bed. Outside, the rain spat against the window in angry, unrelenting sheets. Zhang’s house was close to the Qili river, but earlier in the day he had received assurance from village leaders that flood evacuation was unnecessary…